Chakra Meditation

All the chakras contribute to a human's well-being. Some of our chakras are usually not open and some are over-active, or even near closed. If the chakras are not balanced, peace with the self cannot be achieved.

The chakra centers are like energetic centers within the human body. It reflects the mental, emotional and physical energy. Each chakra center signifies and relates to a different area of your life.

The Sahasrara or the Crown Chakra is the 7th Chakra. It is at the very top of the head. It is linked to your awareness of Oneness with Source, integration of the Whole, living in the now, meaning, devotion, inspiration, and conscious alignment with Pure Awareness.

The Ajna or the Brow Chakra, or Third Eye, is the 6th Chakra. It is in the center of the forehead. It is linked to inner vision, divine understanding, wisdom, intuition, and intelligence.

The Visuddhi or the Throat Chakra is the 5th Chakra. It is at the base of the throat. It is linked to expressing our truth, taking responsibility for our own needs, and decision-making.

The Anahata or the Heart Chakra, which is the 4th Chakra, is in the center of the chest. It is linked to the love of the spiritual and human love, compassion, and acceptance.

The Manipura or the Solar Plexus, which is the 3rd Chakra, goes from just below the heart down to the navel. it is linked to self-esteem, reaction to criticism, and personal power.

The Svadhisthana or the Sacral Chakra, which is the 2nd Chakra, is located just below the navel. it is linked to our inner child, creativity, and spontaneity.

The Muladhara Chakra or the Root Chakra is the 1st Chakra. It is at the base of the spine. It is linked to our connection to the human tribe, family, and fellow human beings, survival instincts, pleasure, pain, and sexuality.

In Chakra meditation, we open The Sahasrara or the Crown Chakra, which is the 7th Chakra

This is the most ‘spiritual chakra ’. It encircles a being's wisdom and being one with the universe. When this chakra is open, prejudice disappears from your to-do list and you seem to become more aware of the world and its connection to your ‘self’. It connects you to the supreme, the oneness, the beyond.

The Chakra Meditation lasts 45 minutes and has three stages; each stage ends with a gong sound. Watching yourself is to be carried out in all three stages. Keep your eyes closed in all the stages. You can open your eyes when each stage ends and enter the next stage with your eyes closed

First Stage

Sit in a relaxed position, watchfully breathe in and out keeping your mouth open. Breath through your mouth, start with slow breathing then slowly move to fast breathing but be comfortable. The better and clearer you will be breath, the better will be your watchfulness. Do not breathe too hard. When you take a deep breath with your mouth open, move your head upwards as if you are pulling the breath and as if you are sending the breath energy to the upper part of the head, as if you are breathing into your upper part of the head. Keep your left palm or right palm on your head, and rhythm yourself with the slow music but do not dance. Breath comfortably and move your head slowly and comfortably. Pace your slow breathing to fast breathing in accordance with your comfort, do not breathe too hard that you get tired. There is no need to imagine anything. Breathe normally; do not over breathe and exhaust yourself. Watch yourself, remain witness, watch your every body movement, remain in total consciousness.

Duration of the first stage is 15 minutes.

Second Stage

Remain seated – place your palm over each other. Watchfully and consciously slowly, move your head in any direction as if there is a rush of all your energy into the upper part of the head. Tune your head movements with the music, and feel the energy flowing upwards. There is no need to imagine anything. Simply, move your head slowly do not move vigorously, and feel the energy flow upward. Watch yourself, remain witness, watch your every body movement, remain in total consciousness.

Duration of the second stage is 15 minutes

Third Stage

Stop all the movements of the head and body while being watchful. Come to a complete standstill, remain seated silently wherever you are in any position. Forget if your back is upright or not, place your one palm over another, just sit in silence - remain in watching, remain in witnessing – watch your every thought and lay your hand below your stomach. Do not touch the stomach, let the hand rest on your abdomen, let the little fingers point up and away from you, touching at their tops, and cross the rest of the fingers with the left thumb underneath the right as if you are praying with joined hands. Remain in consciousness, and let the whole energy flow to the top of the head in the direction of the little fingers. Do not imagine the flow of energy. Watch yourself, remain witness, remain in total consciousness.

Duration of the third stage is 15 minutes.

People may say that meditation techniques seem like nothing but a wild dance. Let them say – only from the wild you can come into being civilized. The wild dance technique is designed to make you let go – to make you accept all that is within you – acceptance is the key to meditation.

During meditation, you may have thought to scratch your body, to move your body, or adjust your sitting position, let all this happen. Do not stop any thought, just flow with it, watch it – during the last stage of sitting in silence, you may suddenly get reminded that today you may have missed an important meeting or you have missed an important due date – do not get up to make a phone call- you may feel some uneasiness because of all the dancing and jumping, simply watch your thoughts. You will realize those old thoughts go and new thoughts take their place – the very technique of meditation is to make you aware that thoughts come and go –you have been giving unnecessary importance to every thought – your realization will make way for the inner silence- it will slowly take you into acceptance.

Become a watcher and not the doer- experience that you and your body are separate.

Watching yourself during meditation practice cannot and should mean to refrain you from taking actions- actions are also part of your thought process- watch your actions too.

People with medical trouble should restrict their deliberate vigorous breathing, dancing, and jumping to a limit which your body permits – do not try to do what others are doing – do not copy anyone - there is no one to give you marks – simply be yourself - the very idea of meditation is not to force but to liberate yourself from the force itself.

Do not watch your pain to an extent that you stop the intake of medical help. Meditation should be added to your life it is not a substitute for any medical help. Meditation should not be done with a hungry stomach, the comfort of the body is equally important.

The music, the dancing, breathing, body movements, and body positions are devices designed and mixed together to bring you into meditativeness. Watchfulness and witnessing is the key to meditation. Without coming into watching yourself and witnessing - all the techniques will be just like a dance practice or body exercises. Watching yourself and your thoughts is meditation.